Adding EXE file to my Website

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I have my web site built in ASP.Net 4.0. I want to add an exe to my web page, so that people can download it. at local dev PC I tried it by using simple anchor tag. But what to do if my website and exe is on my ftp server. Do I need any web service for the same.

Posted 15-May-12 19:25pm

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sagar wasule 16-May-12 2:31am

You can add set up project to ur website

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Ed Nutting · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15T20:26:00

Hi there,

If you have a file server, presumably you have a way for people to download files from it externally, and that "way" must have an address for people to access through? Something like "ftp://myfiloserver.mydomain.com/" or something? So why not just put in a link tag (an "a" tag) that links directly to the FTP server file. For example:

HTML

<a href="ftp://myfiloserver.mydomain.com/A Folder/My EXE file.exe">My EXE File</a>

This should work, I've seen it done on other sites :)

Hope this helps,
Ed

Sandeep Mewara · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15T20:40:00

Not sure but you can try in anchor tag, give a valid path of the file from where it is directly accessible and see if it works.

Or else try:

C#

string filename = "yourfilename";  // file on your server, relative or virtual path to the corresponding physical directory on the server. 
if (filename != "")
{
    string path = Server.MapPath(filename);
    System.IO.FileInfo file = new System.IO.FileInfo(path);
    if (file.Exists)
    {
         Response.Clear();
         Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + file.Name);
         Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", file.Length.ToString());
         Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
         Response.WriteFile(file.FullName);
         Response.End();
    }
    else
    {
         Response.Write("This file does not exist.");
    }
}

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